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Guillaume Franc

1500 - 1570 Person Name: G. Franc Hymnal Number: 106 Composer of "OLD HUNDRED" in The New Jubilee Harp

1828 - 1907 Hymnal Number: 581 Composer of "[Wake the song of jubilee]" in The New Jubilee Harp Asa Hull USA 1828-1907. Born in Keene, NY, he became a music publisher in New York City. He married Emma F Atherton, and they had a daughter, Harriett. He wrote many tunes and authored temperance rallying songs. He published 33 works, of which 21 were songbooks, between 1863-1895. He died in Philadelphia, PA. John Perry

B. R. Hanby

1833 - 1867 Hymnal Number: 525 Composer of "[We are voy'gers on an ocean, and our destiny we know]" in The New Jubilee Harp Benjamin Russell Hanby was born July 22, 1833, the oldest of eight children, to Bishop William Hanby in Rushville, OH. The family moved to Westerville,OH where Bishop Hanby was a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. In his short life Benjamin graduated from Otterbein, taught school, became a United Brethren minister, started a singing school, was editor for John Church publishers in Cincinnati and composed many songs and hymns before he died of tuberculosis March 15, 1867. His home in Westerville was Ohio's first memorial to a composer. It was a stop on the Underground Railroad for slaves escaping to Canada and is a national historic site, a Methodist church Landmark and a Network to Freedom site for the National Park Service. There is a Hanby Residence Hall at Otterbein University. Best known for "Up on the housetop" and "Darling Nellie Gray," Hanby published many hymns including "Little Eyes" and "Who is He? Mary Louise VanDyke

Sidney S. Brewer

1804 - 1889 Person Name: Sidney Smith Brewer Hymnal Number: 405 Author of "Watchman, Tell Me" in The New Jubilee Harp Rv Sidney Smith Brewer USA 1804-1889. Born in New Jersey, he became an Advent Christian Church minister. He was also a writer. He wrote a book about the second coming of Christ in the 1840s. He married Sarah Ann Conger, and they had two children, a daughter, Maria Elizabeth, and a son, Charles F. He died in New Bedford, MA. John Perry

George Heath

1745 - 1822 Person Name: Geo. Heath Hymnal Number: 221 Author of "My soul, be on thy guard" in The New Jubilee Harp Rv George Heath DD United Kingdom 1745-1822. Born at Exeter, Devon, England, he was educated at the Dissenting Academy and King’s College, Cambridge. He married Mary Ann Kean, and they had 4 children: Louisa, John, Charles, and Benjamin (also a minister). He served as pastor of the Honiton, Devonshire, Presbyterian Church, but proved unworthy and was dismissed for cause. He later became a Unitarian minister. In 1781 he published “Hymns & poetic essays sacred to the worship of the Deity”. He also authored a “History of Bristol”. He became Headmaster of Eton College (1792-1802). He joined the Anglican Church and became Canon of Windsor (1800-1822), Rector of Monks Risborough, Vicar of Sturminster Marshall, Dorset, Vicar of Piddletown, Vicar of East Beachsworth (1805-1814), and Fellow of the Royal Society (1795-1822). He was appointed to the 4th stall in St. George’s Chapel in 1800, Windsor Castle, and died at his residence in the Cloisters, Windsor Castle. John Perry ======================= Heath, George, became pastor of a Presbyterian Church at Honiton, Devon, in 1770, and died in 1822. He published a History of Bristol, 1797. Also Hymns and Poetic Essays Sacred to the Public and Private Worship of the Deity, &c, Bristol, 1781, from which "My soul, be on thy guard" (Steadfastness), is taken. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

George Hews

1806 - 1873 Person Name: Geo. Hews Hymnal Number: 274 Composer of "HOLLEY" in The New Jubilee Harp Born: January 6, 1806, Weston, Massachusetts. Died: July 6, 1873, Boston, Massachusetts.

William Miller

1801 - 1878 Person Name: Dr. Wm. Miller Hymnal Number: 414 Composer of "[O land of rest, for thee I sigh]" in The New Jubilee Harp

F. Venua

1788 - 1872 Person Name: Frederick Marc Antoine Venua Hymnal Number: 25 Composer of "PARK STREET" in The New Jubilee Harp Frederic Marc Antoine Venua; English composer Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908 Born to an Italian family in France, Venua attended the Paris Conservatory, and studied composition in London. He directed and composed for the ballet orchestra at the King’s Theater, and belonged the British Royal Society of Musicians. He retired to Exeter in 1858. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/v/e/n/u/venua_fma.htm">Frederick Marc Antoine Venua)

Henry K. Oliver

1800 - 1885 Person Name: H. K. Oliver Hymnal Number: 283 Composer of "FEDERAL STREET" in The New Jubilee Harp Henry Kemble Oliver (b. Beverly, MA, 1800; d. Salem, MA, 1885) was educated at Harvard and Dartmouth. He taught in the public schools of Salem (1818-1842) and was superintendent of the Atlantic Cotton Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts (1848-1858). His civic service included being mayor of Lawrence (18591861) and Salem (1877-1880), state treasurer (1861-1865), and organizer of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics and Labor (1867-1873). Oliver was organist at several churches, including Park Street Congregational Church in Boston, North Church in Salem, and the Unitarian Church in Lawrence. A founder of the Mozart Association and several choral societies in Salem, he published his hymn tunes in Hymn and Psalm Tunes (1860) and Original Hymn Tunes (1875). Bert Polman

Richard Burdsall

1735 - 1824 Person Name: R. Burdsall Hymnal Number: 58 Author of "The Voice of Free Grace" in The New Jubilee Harp Burdsall, Richard, for many years a Wesleyan minister, was born in 1735, and died in 1824. To his Memoirs, published at York, n.d., is appended a hymn beginning, "Now Christ He is risen, the Serpent's head is bruised." The hymn “The voice of free grace cries—'Escape to the mountain,'" begins with stanza ii. of this hymn, but with alterations. In some American hymnals, including Hatfield's Church Hymn Book, 1872, Burdsall's two stanzas are expanded into five, but by whom we cannot say. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)